Historic landfill sites in Tring, Hertfordshire
The Environment Agency records 21 historic landfill sites in and around Tring, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 77 hectares in total. The largest is Bellingdon Brickworks at 10.66 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Tring (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellingdon Brickworks | 10.66 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Brickfields | 9.77 ha | 1993 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Pendley Farm | 9.18 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| The Old Brickworks | 8.26 ha | — | Inert |
| Widow Croft | 5.54 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Roundhill Woods | 4.52 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Buckland Common Nurseries | 4.17 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Buckland Common Nurseries | 3.93 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Buckland Common Landfill | 3.4 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ivinghoe Aston | 3.27 ha | — | Commercial |
| Drayton Beauchamp | 3.26 ha | 1976 | Waste types not recorded |
| Ivinghoe Aston Quarry | 3.06 ha | 1986 | HouseholdInert |
| Hamberlins Farm | 2.39 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Lady Grove Landfill | 2.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Miswell Farm | 1.59 ha | 1970 | Waste types not recorded |
| Grand Union Canal | 0.65 ha | 1929 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bishops Wood | 0.42 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Bishops Wood | 0.26 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Bishops Wood | 0.17 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Oddy Hill | 0.17 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Bishops Wood | 0.06 ha | 1989 | Inert |
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Tring?
- 21 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Tring town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Tring?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.